Go: The live broadcast queen launched a gorgeous rebellion against the dog

Chapter 395 San Shuang Cup Seed

"Lei Qi Jiudan, first of all, thank you for accepting our interview!

“It’s a pity that because of the outstanding performance of two veterans, Ni Jue and Shangguan Sheng, in the two rounds of competition, the Dajing team lost in the semi-finals with a total score of 3 to 5 and failed to enter the finals.

"But in terms of personal performance, your performance in the second half of this Weiqi League is remarkable. In the last nine games of the regular season, you won seven and lost two, and in the playoffs, you won all six games! Including three games as the main general!
"From your recent performance, it seems that you have fully recovered from the ups and downs in the second half of last year, right?"

At 3 pm on March 10, Tianyuan Center Building, Qiantang City.

In a corner of Qiantang team's home court in the semi-finals of the Weiqi League playoffs, the captain of Dajing team, who had just finished the game, was accepting media interviews in accordance with the requirements of the event.

Although Lei Qi is not very old, he has been away from home for a long time for many years, participated in many competitions, and has been deliberately trained by Shang Chaotian. Therefore, he is still familiar with this kind of interview.

"Ah, thank you!
"My recent performance is not that good...

"Especially in the playoffs, we happened to meet Pengze, Suhu and Qiantang teams. I felt that the three seniors, Tang Guansheng, Sun Yi and Xiong Siyi, might have been affected to some extent by the defeat in the Nongshim Cup and their performance was not as good as before. I just took advantage of the opportunity."

"Ah, Lei Qi Jiudan is very modest."

Seeing that Lei Qi's answer was not very interesting, the reporter was a little unwilling and threw out some more eye-catching questions:

"Many chess fans are discussing whether to put you in the main position, considering your outstanding performance in the Nongshim Cup and your recent good form. There will be a great chance.

"After all, you had already won four games in a row when you came on stage in the second stage, but even so, you played a very high-quality game against the energetic Liu Shixian.

"If you were put in the main position and the situation on both sides was reversed, many chess fans think you might be able to defeat Liu Shixian, 9th Dan."

Hearing such a slightly sensitive question, Lei Qi blinked and said calmly:

"I think some chess fans think too highly of me...

“First of all, I took the initiative to apply to play as a forward, and Coach Jiao and other teammates just respected my opinion.

“Next, I don’t think my condition in the last game of the second stage was affected by the previous consecutive battles.

"That game... I really pushed myself to the limit. I haven't played a game of higher quality than that one recently, but Liu Jiudan was indeed better.

"I, Liu Shixian, 9th Dan, and Rui... uh..."

After subconsciously spitting out half of the name, Lei Qi realized that something was wrong and stopped talking.

He knew that if he said "there is still a gap between me and Rui Zhao", he didn't know what kind of messy speculation and gossip would be stirred up, so he decisively changed his words:

"...There is still a gap between me and Liu Jiudan, and I need to continue to work hard to catch up."

"Rui?"

But when I heard that Lei Qi seemed to be planning to add another name after Liu Shixian, the reporter's professional instinct was instantly activated.

"Lei Jiudan, when you said 'Rui' just now... are you referring to Lin Ruixin, the chess master?

"Calling each other by name... I didn't expect the relationship between you two to be better than I thought!"

"…No, I just said it too quickly."

Lei Qi had a stern face without any smile.

Isn’t Lin Ruixin just a little more talented?

How could it be harder to deal with a monster like Rui Zhao!

...

...

"Brother Tian, ​​you mean...

"Lei Qi is still competing with Rui Zhao?!"

On the same evening, Chinese Go Association.

Lu Wenjie was quite surprised to hear what Shang Chaotian had just explained.

Just now, the two of them, after working overtime, happened to watch today's Weiqi League semi-finals and related reports together, and at the same time they also heard Lei Qi's slightly abrupt sound of the word "Rui".

Lu Wenjie, who knew the inside story, naturally knew that Lei Qi must be referring to Rui Zhao!
So, feeling a little worried, he couldn't help but ask Shang Chaotian about the conversation between the two after he left that day.

Shang Chaotian smiled and signaled his deputy to stay calm:
“We’ll compete, but... we don’t have to worry about Xiao Lei.

"Over the past six months, he has experienced a lot and has grown a lot!

"So, we apologized to each other that day, and he took the initiative to ask me if I was still willing to be his student, and the matter was finally over!" "This... is naturally the best."

Lu Wenjie nodded slightly, but his brows did not relax at all:
"But if that's the case, why does he still want to compete with Rui Zhao?"

Shang Chaotian explained slowly:

“This… I also talked to him about it, mainly about two points.

"First and foremost, he still can't use the Heart Flow. And he also admitted that he still cares about Rui Zhao.

"So, he thought that if he could prove that he was better than Rui Zhao, this little obstacle in his heart might be easily solved.

"And the second thing..."

Speaking of this, Shang Chaotian couldn't help but smile again:
“…He said that he had never encountered such a tough opponent since he was a child.

"Although Chu Jun is also very good, he is still a little bit inferior to Xiao Lei.

"And with Rui Zhao as a comparison, he feels more determined and motivated."

"That's it..."

Lu Wenjie tasted the flavor and then agreed:

"If that's the case, it would probably be a good thing for Xiao Lei..."

"I felt the same way, so I encouraged him a little more and didn't advise him otherwise."

"No wonder Xiao Lei almost blurted out Rui Zhao's name today!"

Lu Wenjie smiled and shook his head:

“However, there is a Fan Air Battle in the middle of this month and a San Shuang Cup at the end of the month.

"If Rui Zhao gets good results in the fan-air battle, I'm afraid the pressure will be on Xiao Lei again by the end of the month!"

"Just give it if you don't want to!

"I'm counting on him to become the leader of the next generation. How can he be so unbearable?"

Shang Chaotian, who had been in a good mood recently, joked and suddenly seemed to remember something, and asked casually:

“…Oh, by the way, Wen Jie.

"Today's noon should be the deadline for exchanging Sanshuang Cup seed quotas and registering for the qualifiers. I won't ask about the qualifiers for now, but have the two seeded players been confirmed?"

As a long-established world championship sponsored by South Korea's Samsung Group, the quota allocation rules of the Samsung Cup have been relatively fixed in recent years:

种子13人：上届四强4人、外卡1人（一般给欧美选手）、华夏大陆2人、南韩4人、东瀛2人。这13人都通过非选拔方式，一般由各国围棋官方管理机构自行根据规章制度确定。

选拔赛19人：南韩9人（男子8人、女子1人）、华夏大陆7人、华夏台海省1人、东瀛2人。

For the Chinese mainland, Lei Qi and Tang Guansheng were the champion and semi-finalists of the previous tournament respectively, and they directly entered this tournament. The 7 selection places will naturally be selected through the selection competition, while the 2 seeds will still be exchanged through [International Tournament Points].

"It's confirmed. Except for Xiao Lei and Tang Guansheng, everyone else who has enough points has applied for redemption...

"Wait, have you applied for redemption?"

Upon hearing this, Shang Chaotian immediately expressed his doubts:

"Ni Jue also applied?"

The reason Shang Chaotian asked this question was to remind his deputy: It's impossible for Ni Jue to apply, right?
Because of the special playing style of the Chinese Celebrity Tianyuan, world competitions with many rounds are not very friendly to it.

Therefore, even though he has accumulated a lot of international competition points in the past two years because of defending the two major titles of [Meijin] and [Tianyuan], he feels that his way of playing is still better than to take up precious seeding spots. He has only played in the preliminaries and never exchanged seeds - this has basically become a routine.

Unexpectedly, Lu Wenjie straightened his expression and said:

"Brother Tian, ​​I was just about to report this to you...

“For some reason, Ni Jue also applied this time.

"Because he has never used his points, he is the only one with the most points besides Xiao Lei and Ji Qiujuan. And Xiao Lei was directly selected as the champion of the previous competition, so...

"This time, Ni Jue will compete in the Sanshuang Cup as our top seed!"

(End of this chapter)